After Sukkur and Guddu barrages, flood pressure has also started reducing on Kotri barrage.
However, a flood tide has entered tehsil Jaati and Choharr Jamali following a breach in Kot Aalemo bund. Ninety percent population of the area has shifted to safer places. Sajawal-Thatta road has been opened for traffic after reduction in flood pre
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Organization of Islamic conference will set up an emergency relief fund for natural disasters.
Talking to President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi, OIC Secretary General Professor Ekameledin Ihsanoglu said the fund would be established in next meeting of the conference. He said fund would help the victims of natural disasters in Islamic countri
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At least 40 suspected extremists have been killed in operations by security forces carried out in Tirah valley of Khyber district.
Security forces launched attacks on terrorists’ various hideouts established in Nari Baba, Nakai, Takhta-E-Kai and Qilla areas of Khyber Agency. Security forces pounded militants’ sanctuaries; training centers, fm radio station and vehicles meant f
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Police have arrested six police officials including ex-DPO Sialkot, Waqar Chohan allegedly involved in the brutal execution of two brothers on the 15th of this month.
The accused will be produced before an anti-terrorism court today.
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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has called for UNESCO’s increased role in establishing non-formal education centers in the flood affected areas of Pakistan.
Talking to the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova in Islamabad he also called for providing training to teachers in the flood relief camps in various disciplines so that around 6 million children who have lost their classes could resume school
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U.S President Barack Obama has formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed.
In his address to the nation from the oval office, President Barack Obama declared that Iraqi people must now take the lead in charting their destiny. He argued that Americans had met their responsibility in Iraq. Some 50,000 American troops are le
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas will hold separate meetings with President Obama today,
at the white house ahead of a dinner and the start of direct bilateral negotiations. US envoy George Mitchell said in Washington that the United States will have an "active and sustained role" in upcoming peace talks between the Israelis and the Pa
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Five US soldiers were killed in Afghanistan as the number of Americans to die in the war in the past four days climbed to 22.
ISAF said four soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan in a Taliban-style bomb attack while the fifth died in an insurgent attack in the south.
The deaths come a day after eight NATO troops -- seven of them American -- were killed in bom
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The head of Kenya's census has defended the release of national census figures that include tribal affiliations.
The decision has been criticised by some as stoking ethnic divisions. In early 2008, more than 1,000 Kenyans were killed and 300,000 made homeless in post-election ethnic violence. But the census director general said it was better to have indisput
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Kashmiri Hurriyet Leader, Syed Ali Gilani has declared that ongoing mass protests in occupied Kashmir will be intensified if India failed to begin the process of complete demilitarisation of the territory.
Addressing a press conference in Srinagar,he said the demilitarisation process should be monitored by a credible agency. The authorities re-imposed curfew in Srinagar, Islamabad and Pulwama and restrictions in other cities and towns to prevent
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Maria Sharapova and Jelena Jankovic came through tough opening encounters to reach round two of the US Open at Flushing Meadows, New York.
Fourth seed Jankovic was given a huge scare by 18-year-old Romanian Simona Halep in the afternoon heat but dug in to win 6-4 4-6 7-5. And 2006 champion Sharapova battled hard to see off Australia's Jarmila Groth 3-6 6-3 6-1 in the evening. Caroline
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Kevin Pietersen has been omitted from England's limited overs series against Pakistan, which begins on Friday.
Pietersen revealed the news on his Twitter page, which contained an expletive and was hastily deleted. The England and Wales Cricket Board later confirmed the story and that the 30-year-old batsman would play for Surrey for the remainder of the se
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Chairman, Pakistan Kuwait investment company Saleh Ali Muraikhi, presented a cheque for 25 million rupees to Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani for his flood relief fund.
The Prime Minister lauded the kind gesture of the international community that has come forward with assistance to help the flood affectees in Pakistan.
He said damages caused by the unprecedented floods, was beyond our resources, therefore, ass
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